Martha McSally
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Martha Elizabeth McSally (born March 22, 1966) is a United States Air Force (USAF) combat veteran and politician serving as the junior Senate Senator for Arizona.
She was previously elected as the US Representative for Arizona's 2nd congressional district. McSally was with the USF from 1988 to 2010, rising to the rank of colonel before retiring.
McSally was the first American woman to fly in combat following the 1991 removal of a ban on female combat pilots in the Air Force history.
During Operation Southern Watch, McSally flown the Fairchild Republic A-10 close air support aircraft over Iraq and Kuwait.
She was also the first female commander of a USAF fighter squadron (354 FS), headquartered at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
In 2001, McSally vs. Rumsfeld, a mother from McSally v. Rumsfeld, suing the US Department of Defense for requiring United States and British servicewomen stationed in Saudi Arabia to wear the body-covering abaya when traveling off base in the country. McSally was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2014 after a botched congressional bid in 2012.
She served two terms as Arizona's 2nd congressional district's representative.
McSally was the Republican nominee in Arizona's 2018 Senate election, losing 58% to Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, while Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick took McSally's seat in the House of Representatives.
The United States was in a temporary state after that election. Senator Jon Kyl resigned from the state's other Senate seat, and Republican Governor Doug Ducey nominated McSally to replace Kyl.
Early life and education
McSally was born in Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1966, as the youngest of five children. Bernard McSally, McSally's counsel, died unexpectedly as a result of a major heart attack when she was 12. Eleanor (Taft), her mother, worked as a reading specialist to assist the family.
In 1984, McSally became the valedictorian at St. Mary Academy – Bay View. During a Wall Street Journal interview in April 2018, McSally said that her track and field coach compelled her into a sexual relationship during her senior year at the Catholic girls' school. She said that the coach used "emotional coercion" to hold her compliant. She did not reveal the incident to friends or family until ten years after she was graduated.
She earned a bachelor's degree in 1988 and attended the United States Air Force Academy, graduating in 1988 with a B.S. Biology is a science. She obtained a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and then moved to pilot training.
Personal life
When the marriage was annulled, McSally married Air Force officer Donald Henry from 1997 to 1999. She is a triathlete. Boomer, McSally's rescued Golden Retriever, appears more often at concerts and in films.
In April 2018, a Tucson man was sentenced to 15 months in jail for threatening to assault and murder McSally.
McSally told her colleagues that she had been assaulted by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force on March 6, 2019.
McSally did not identify the officer, but she expressed disappointment at the military system's inability and several commanders' refusals to address sexual abuse.
Military career
After completing Undergraduate Pilot Training at Williams Air Force Base east of Phoenix, McSally earned her USAF pilot's wings in 1991. Following graduation, she was assigned to Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, as a First Assignment Instructor Pilot in the T-37 program. In 1993, McSally began Lead-in Fighter Training.
McSally completed the A-10 Thunderbolt II Replacement Training Unit at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, and was assigned to an operational A-10 squadron that deployed to Kuwait in January 1995. During this deployment, she led a combat patrol over Iraq for Operation Southern Watch, enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq, and becoming "the first female US fighter pilot to fly in combat" and the first woman to command a fighter squadron."
McSally was sent to Europe in 1999 to support Operation Allied Force Operation. She was selected as one of seven active duty Air Force officers for the Legislative Fellowship Program. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) lived in Washington, D.C., as a national security advisor.
McSally took over the 354th Fighter Squadron at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in July 2004. She was then sent to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. McSally's squadron received the David C. Shilling Award in 2006, the Air Force Association's highest award for "most outstanding service in the field of flight."
McSally was represented by the Rutherford Institute in McSally vs. Rumsfeld, a highly fought 2001 lawsuit against the Department of Defense, requesting that US and UK servicewomen stationed in Saudi Arabia wear the body-covering abaya when traveling off base in the country. McSally, the highest-ranked female fighter pilot in the United States Air Force at the time of the litigation, was ranked as a major (O-4). "The laws compelled her to give the message that women are subordinate to men," she argued.
She referred to the policy's discrimination in a "60 Minutes" interview on CBS on January 20, 2002: She told the program that she lived under the program:
In 2002, General Tommy Franks, then-commander of the United States Central Command, declared that US military servicewomen would no longer be required to wear the abaya, although they would be encouraged to do so as a mark of respect for local customs. Colonel Rick Thomas, a Central Command spokesman, said the change was not made because of McSally's complaint, but it had already been "under review" before the lawsuit was lodged. McSally had been trying to reform the policy for many years, but had filed the case after she had been threatened with a court martial if she did not comply.
Congress passed legislation in 2002 prohibiting servicewomen from "requiring or encouraging servicewomen to put on abayas in Saudi Arabia" or to use taxpayer funds to buy them." McSally has continued to speak out about Saudi Arabia's gender politics throughout her time in USAF.
She served as a lecture at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, after resigning from the US Air Force on May 6, 2010.